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02-12-2005, 12:53 PM
| | |  Military mag 'wont use HP likeness again'
The Military magazine 'Preventive Maintenance Monthly' printed in May 2004, initially ran a feature-length spoof which some say, was on Harry Potter.
As a result, lawyers for JK & WB started investigating a possible breach of copyright.
After discussions between the Army's lawyers and Rowling's representatives, Williams (spokeswoman for the Army Materiel Command) said, "We are not going to use the likeness of 'Harry Potter' characters again."
This development is interesting as they were previously quoted as saying; Quote:
“The drawings were done by a contracted artist for us. They do not look like any of the characters from Harry Potter."
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02-12-2005, 01:04 PM
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 Hahahaha! I remember commenting that trying to deny the resemblances was pretty hard to do... I mean, Snappy, Longshanks? (I don't remember the rest) And that sooo looked like a caricature of Alan Rickman...Come on!
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02-12-2005, 01:07 PM
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Ranger, Rumbledoore, Donagal and Trotter.  It was silly, indeed.
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02-12-2005, 01:45 PM
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It is silly but its funny! Professor Snappy! Ha! And Ranger instead of granger! I wonder what they had for err Weasley and potter. Maybe for potter it would be Otter!! LOL
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02-12-2005, 03:56 PM
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Rotfl!! They're even closer to the real names than I thought! Oy vey... It was a great spoof nonetheless.
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02-12-2005, 03:58 PM
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LoL thats funny... too bad they won't do it anymore.
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02-12-2005, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by dagger It is silly but its funny! Professor Snappy! Ha! And Ranger instead of granger! I wonder what they had for err Weasley and potter. Maybe for potter it would be Otter!! LOL It was Trotter for Potter.
We weren't saying the names were silly, we were saying the editors were silly for denying that the characters bore any resenblance to the ones from Potter as, aswell as their names, the way they looked, proved they looked almost identical to the HP ones. Quote:
too bad they won't do it anymore.
They won't do it anymore for fear of legal trouble.
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02-12-2005, 08:38 PM
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that was funny.
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02-12-2005, 09:13 PM
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the characters + names were very similar, but im not sure what i feel about them not doing anymore HP spoofs. maybe relieved so that there wont have to be any more legal matters.
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02-12-2005, 10:21 PM
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When I read about it, all I could think of was trademark law... Ahhhh!! I need a vacation...
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02-12-2005, 10:30 PM
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Yeah, they should have drawn characters that didn't resemble to actors too much. I liked to spoof though.
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02-12-2005, 10:51 PM
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lol! funny.
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02-12-2005, 11:50 PM
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Funny!
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02-14-2005, 12:47 AM
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lol ...thats funny!!
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